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mcar

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36. We can no longer be complacent
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 06:29 PM
Mar 2017

I want to see competitive races in all state leg, governor's races, and so on.

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and a pox on those... samnsara Mar 2017 #1
+1 nt Kahuna7 Mar 2017 #3
Well, they may have meant well, I suppose. MineralMan Mar 2017 #4
Some bitter medicine... Baconator Mar 2017 #34
Especially those who call themselves "progressives." nycbos Mar 2017 #41
Well, there were emails. Goldman Sachs speeches. And Jeffrey Epstien's plane. nt msanthrope Mar 2017 #2
Yeah, I guess. Somehow, that isn't comforting to me. MineralMan Mar 2017 #7
We didn't know we had it so good....that we had the luxury of the mental masturbation msanthrope Mar 2017 #9
I think of what WOULD be happening. Hortensis Mar 2017 #5
Ain't it the truth? MineralMan Mar 2017 #10
Yes. There is nothing that can't be rebuilt, and even better. Hortensis Mar 2017 #38
But how many will suffer while it is being rebuilt csziggy Mar 2017 #47
Well, time to join action groups opposing to try to Hortensis Mar 2017 #48
After this month I can try to be more active csziggy Mar 2017 #49
I'm in. Cracklin Charlie Mar 2017 #6
It's really a pity the Founding Fathers couldn't have foreseen an election Mr. Ected Mar 2017 #8
It's also a pity they didn't realize that some people would MineralMan Mar 2017 #14
They did not envision popular elections by universal franchise at all. (Nor did they envision tblue37 Mar 2017 #39
I voted against Drumph Plucketeer Mar 2017 #45
But Benghazi!!! guillaumeb Mar 2017 #11
I feel the same way Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #12
I will never forget having a heated discussion with a millennial who said she voted redstatebluegirl Mar 2017 #51
Your thoughts mirror my own. CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2017 #13
I don't know how it will all end, my dear Peggy. MineralMan Mar 2017 #16
Wow. Just fucking wow. nt msanthrope Mar 2017 #32
But Drumpf's going to bring the revolution Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 #15
Well, by the time the "revolution" comes, I'm sure MineralMan Mar 2017 #17
Yep, was just reading some of her spewing a few minutes ago. LisaM Mar 2017 #35
It's a bit tarnished but there is a thin silver lining. TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #18
That lining is so thin I can hardly see it, somehow. MineralMan Mar 2017 #20
I also think we missed the last chance humbled_opinion Mar 2017 #46
Yup ismnotwasm Mar 2017 #19
Aw, Geez. Really? MineralMan Mar 2017 #21
I can't help but think about what we've lost mcar Mar 2017 #22
Well, I do hope that those people have learned something MineralMan Mar 2017 #24
We can no longer be complacent mcar Mar 2017 #36
Here's an ironic point to consider DFW Mar 2017 #23
True, of course, but we still would have had her in MineralMan Mar 2017 #25
Correct, but still DFW Mar 2017 #30
it just makes me sick MFM008 Mar 2017 #26
Couldn't look worse than this: bettyellen Mar 2017 #27
Amazing, considering his vanity, that he goes out in the wind w/o a hat! nt tblue37 Mar 2017 #44
We have liftoff! LuckyLib Mar 2017 #54
I try not to think about it, as the sorrow is more than I can bear. mahina Mar 2017 #28
It should not have even been close. Hillary is a wonderful caring person. ffr Mar 2017 #29
For those who know what I mean, Doreen Mar 2017 #31
But HRC is as bad or worse than Trump. At least that is what Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #33
She is Social Justice Warrior... nycbos Mar 2017 #42
I agree with your analysis Gothmog Mar 2017 #37
Helll a President Buggs Bunny would look damn good! Cryptoad Mar 2017 #40
Makes me sick, thinking how much better we'd be doing with Hillary at the helm. Paladin Mar 2017 #43
Al Gore and Hillary Clinton: the best presidents we never had. VOX Mar 2017 #50
Agreed! peggysue2 Mar 2017 #52
Trump is the worst case scenario. Rex Mar 2017 #53
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